One thing I've heard (all?) British people do is say a long "O" like "eh-O", as in words like "no" spoken "neh-O." Australians always say long "O" with an "ah" or "ae" sound

Good cop, bad cop, very bad cop TV show The Wire portrays police, politicians and lawyers working on the wrong side of the law. It's a break from the norm, says dramatist GF Newman, whose own attempt at showing all sides of the story in 1970s

Well, it depends. Suppose there are two universities in my city. One has a very high reputation, the best teachers, the hardest classes, and is very famous. The other does not have a very good reputation. Someone asks me "Which university did

Hi, pals. I'd like to read your comments on this issue: Why do native speakers use "in", "on" and "at" when speaking about streets? Is this a matter of using British or American English? I've heard British

At 18:42:27 on Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Pawel Piotr Stawski (Email Removed) wrote in : This is good. We said unpleasant things to you, eventually, because you had already said unpleasant things to us - whether or not you realised that you were doing so

Areff typed thus: I know the US well enough to be able to say that they weren't significantly atypical. My observation is based on two groups of about 50 from the North East - similar numbers to the other nationalities I mentioned - who were

Andrew Gwilliam typed thus: I wouldn't consider the ROI as foreign, nor Australia or ... be foreign, but not quite so foreign as, say, Afghanistan. It's worth mentioning that (in my opinion) the US is *far* more foreign to Brits than is

Here in Aus we were told (very strictly indeed) when ... solecism or have the Poms reverted to the old expressions? The official name is "pence", or "penny" for the singular. The "p" was only ever meant to be used in

Good point, "uh" doesn't really appear in traditional English words, ... it. "Uh-huh" isn't quite the same, being a nasal "unh-hunh." Now I'm confused. What does short-U have to do with it? Wasn't